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03-05-2016, 09:38 PM
#3032
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Thrift shops and garage sales are great places to find scrap fabrics. I buy men's cotton shirts in large sizes from church rummage sales, to cut up into shirt quilts. Bonnie Hunter has some beautiful patterns for shirting fabrics.
I have to say my biggest source of scraps is my charity quilting group. Our leader gives me scraps quite often, as she knows I love scrappy quilting.
I have to say my biggest source of scraps is my charity quilting group. Our leader gives me scraps quite often, as she knows I love scrappy quilting.
03-06-2016, 09:57 AM
#3033
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Location: Upstate NY, north of Syracuse Area
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Heather1949, I also was going to say I shop for scraps at thrift stores. They often have half price sales on certain things. Childrens' dresses are usually like new because they outgrow them so fast. Also medical scrubs are made of very sturdy 100% cotton and come in lots of neat patterns as well as many solid colors. I try to get the largest sizes available in prints I like.
Also, as sewbizgirl says, men's shirts are a great resource.
Also, as sewbizgirl says, men's shirts are a great resource.
03-09-2016, 07:14 AM
#3036
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This year instead of resolutions I set myself some quilt goals. The first one was to use up as many scraps as I could between Jan. and my trip to Florida in April. I'm doing lap quilts and hope to use them to achieve my second goal of learning some fmq on my domestic machine. I got totally inspired by one of dorismary2001's quilt and made one like it, love how it turned out. The second one in hot-crossed 9 patch made from mens shirts, 3rd is a string quilt I finished this morning.[ATTACH=CONFIG]543996[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]543997[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]543999[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]544003[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]544004[/ATTACH]4th is scrappy bricks, #5 & 6 are[ATTACH=CONFIG]544005[/ATTACH] trip around the world using Bonnie Hunter's pattern( 6 still needs borders). 7 is the scrappy attic steps. 8 is scrappy log cabin, 9 is double sliced layer cake and last quarter log cabin I think (made it from a pic)[ATTACH=CONFIG]544009[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]544007[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]544008[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]544006[/ATTACH]I have two more in progress but the scrap pile doesn't seem to have diminished that much. sigh
03-14-2016, 06:25 PM
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